London Underground map that shows every abandoned ‘GHOST STATION’. Tunnel into the past! From ‘British Museum’ to ‘Down Street’, the fascinating London Underground map that shows every single abandoned ‘GHOST STATION’ It has been created by Franklin Jarrier, who names the ‘ghost stations’ and indicates the date they closed. His map shows the actual layout […]
10 Bits Of Juicy Trivia You Probably Didn’t Know About The Tube. London Underground knowledge. Source: 10 Bits Of Juicy Trivia You Probably Didn’t Know About The Tube | Londonist
Six Fascinating Images Of The Early London Underground. The Londonist delved into the British Newspaper Archive to tease out some long-lost images from the early days of the London Underground. A dip into transport history. Source: Six Fascinating Images Of The Early London Underground | Londonist
Victoria underground line gets go-ahead – archive 21 August 1962. The new line is the first piece of major tube construction in Central London since 1907. A mock-up of the type of carriage to be used on the Victoria Line, 20th August 1968. Photograph: Ron Case/Getty Images. The long-awaited “Victoria Line” – an underground railway […]
Rangers House – the art collection you’ve probably never seen. At the top end of Greenwich Park, away from the tourists is a grand house, called a lodge, and inside is one of the UK’s finest collections of art. And until last week, not the easiest or most obvious one to see. Source: Rangers House […]
A Map Of Unbuilt London. Imagine if the Thames flowed to docks in Peckham, while its ancient course was reclaimed for cars. Picture London with a mile-high skyscraper, or a pyramid full of corpses on Primrose Hill. Would you have liked to see an airport at King’s Cross, or Charing Cross, or Peckham (again)? The […]
Fascinating photos give an insight into what it was like on the Tube for London commuters from the 1960s to the 1980s. These images reveal what some of London’s most famous stations including Kings Cross and Waterloo were like nearly 40 years or more ago. While some of the photos show that elements of London’s […]
Transport Geeks… Look At All This Stuff You Could Own. go on, have a look and buy some rare stuff from the auction, it all looks really good! It’s on 1 July 2018. Huge auction sale for tube, bus and train fans 1 July 2018. Source: Transport Geeks… Look At All This Stuff You Could […]
A Tube Map That Never Happened, Based On Plans From The 1940sm BY WILL NOBLE. This is the tube map that could have been. Click to enlargeAlastair Carr painstakingly created the map, using details from sweeping proposals published in January 1946. The plans set out to improve and extend the underground rail network across London. […]
So You Think You Know London? Best Of London, Secret | By: N Quentin Woolf Londonist Out Loud: So You Think You Know London? Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. In this episode, Londonist’s own Editor-at-Large, Matt Brown, is the guest, telling us why everything we think we […]